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Give Light and the People Wilk Find Their Own Way

What's So Funny?

“I CAN'T be amusing in this business because these are not. laughing matters,” Dwight Eisenhower told an Indiana audience on his current whistle-stop campaign.

. “As we face the issues of this campaign I see nothing

. funny about them.” At about the same hour in Springfield, Gov. Adlai Stevenson——asked whether he considered himself to the right of President Truman—said “I don't know about my latitude and longitude,” That probably got a big laugh. Mr. Stevenson's wisecracks generally do; he is undoubtedly the greatest master of the quip to run for President in 40 years.” If this were a national contest for the best afterdinner speaker, Gov. Stevenson would get our vote. *But this is a contest for the highest office in the land. We aré about to choose the man who will lead us in one of the gravest periods in our national history. And there is nothing funny about it. - . " y ” . * “GOV. STEVENSON was asked whether he considers himself to the right of President Truman. That's a fair question, and a lot of Americans would like to have an answer. But they won’t get one from Mr, Steveson, who apparently would prefer that the voters think he doesn’t even ‘know anyone named Truman. Instead of saying what he thinks is wrong with the Republican platform, Gov. Stevenson described it as “a “bucket of eels.” : Instead of saying what he thinks is wrong with the Taft-Hartley Act, he said it is “a tangled snarl of legal barbed-wire.” No one objects to an occasional light touch. But the interesting thing about the Stevenson quips is that they are substitutes for answers to important questions in the minds of the voters.

~ . » » » w WE DON'T think the American people are going to be satisfied with those substitutes, even though they may laugh at them. We think they are going to be more impressed with the seriousness of Dwight Eisenhower, who is no orator but who is spelling out the issues of this campaign in plain, blunt language and is telling the people what he proposes to do about them. : As he said in Indiana, “the greatest problem we have today is how to prevent World War III by winning this Cold War and stopping the fighting now going on.”

And there is nothing funny about that.

Constitution Day

HERE isn't any special public ceremony planned in Indianapolis this year to mark Constitution Day, which is today. : In a way that is regrettable, since Indianapolis for years was known nationally for outstanding events celebrating this important anniversary. But, even if public ceremonials, for one reason and another, couldn't be arranged this time, it is worth the while of every American to pause long enough to cgnsider just how important the adoption of our Constitution was to him. To ask himself, _ for example, just how he'd be doing without it. "7 The principles it sets forth, which are the foundation of every human liberty we have in this country, are under the heaviest attack, from without and within, that they —ever have endured. Whether-they shall-stand, -or-fall is the basic issue of our foreign policy, and of our domestic policy. Upon the outcome of that struggle depends the kind of lives we ourselves will lead, and our children will lead, and the people of most of the world will lead. So, without a public ceremonial, there is a way, on this Constitution Day of 1952, in which ,every one of us can celebrate it individually. By making sure we are, each of us, registered to vote next Nov. 4, and eligible to take our proper parts in making the decisions to be made that day on those most vital issues. Only we, ourselves, can preserve the rights it says are ours,

The Worker Pays

HE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR is reminding its millions of members, through articles in its weekly paper, that taxes are a heavy burden to the workingman as well as to the employer. Federal excise taxes, it points out in its current issue, are heavier now than they were during World War II; and not only have all those “temporary” wartime taxes been maintained, but most of them have been raised and some new ones imposed. These taxes affect many items the union member buys regularly, the union. paper says, such as tobacco, automobiles, coal, gasoline, beer and liquor, and sporting goods—and there are also heavy taxes on telephone service and bus and train fares. | “These and hundreds of other taxes contribute materially to the ever rising cost of living,” says the AFL paper. Indeed they do, and they will continue to do so until the masses of America's wage earners decide to do something about the fact that high taxes and government extravagance are hurting them as well as the boss.

Sweet Sorrow

HE LAST time folks bid a grateful good-bye to Maj. Gen, Harry H. Vaughan it turned out to be much adieu _ about nothing, because his boss double-crossed the experts and won the election. : ; This time, however, we are on reasonably sure ground ia Wishing him Godspeed. We have the General's own word or re : “When he (meaning the President) goes, I’ go,” said ‘the White House military aide. ~~ Tome! 51 So, cheerfully if somewhat prematurély; we say aloha

to Vaughan, medal-collector, bon vivant and living

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WHAT A WHOPPER . . . By George Thiem

‘Grain Hoax’ Helped Truman To Win

CHICAGO-—Did President Truman lie to the farmers in the so-called ‘‘grain storage hoax" of 19487 Was he correct in charging the Republican 80th Congress with preventing government supports under sliding corn and wheat prices? A Chicago Daily News search of the records has established conclusively that Mr. Truman told a whopper, all right. He admits himself that he “sold a bill of goods to the farmers” that probably won him the five leading farm states of Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, and the 1948 election. i But there is no evidence that the administration deliberately rigged the grain market that year, as chamged in The Saturday Evening Post (Aug. 16, 1952 issue) and repeated by Gen. Dwight Eisenhower recently. $ oD HERE ARE the facts: ONE—Farmers produced an all-time record corn crop in 1948 totaling 3,681,793,000 bushels. This crop followed one of the three smallest corn yields in history only 2,383,970,000 bushels were produced in 1947 on an acreage little different than that of 48. TWO-—Following the law of supply and demand, corn prices zoomed in January, 1948, to $2.70, a bushel ot Chicago. Some farmers got as high as $2.86 or more in deficit food areas. THREE —By Sept. 18, 1948, when Mr. Truman made his historic farm speech at Dexter, Iowa, the corn price had slid—because of the oncoming bumper crop—to $1.54%. This was a drop of $1.16 in less than nine months. The December future by September was down to $1.35. FOUR-—Pregident Truman and his advisers, noting the farm price collapse—a big wheat crop drove wheat prices down, too-—seized upon an insignificant amendment in the charter of the Commodity Credit Corp. voted by the Congress that year to blame Republicans in effect for low prices, FIVE-—The amendment restrained the CCC from purchasing terminal grain elevators and competing with the private trade in storing and conditioning grain. It had nothing to do with stopping the government from making price raising loans on corn and wheat. The farmer always has had to provide his own storage. The grain under loan ordinarily was sealed in cribs or bins on the farm. This is the program today, just as it was in the beginning, LAE ON HIS whistle stop swing through the farm belt, Mr. Truman whaled away at the Wall Street money bags, the grain speculators and the Republican Congress. At the Dexter plowing match that. Saturday afternoon, he said: “The Republican (80th) "Congress has already stuck a pitchfork in the farmer’s back. They have already done their best to keep the price supports from working. Many growers have sold wheat this summer at less than the support price because they could not find proper storage. “When the Democratic administration had to face this problem in the past the government set up grain bins all over the wheat and corn belts to provide storage.” on BD THIS LAST was a falsehood, whether or not the President knew it. The villages of metal grain bins seen all over the farm belt have been used not for farm storage on which to make loans, but

ONE-SIDED? . . . By Max B. Cook Airport Report Stirs Criticism

RECOMMENDATIONS by the President's Airport Commission, which Mr. Truman ordered to be followed ‘“‘without delay,” are running into snags, : ~The aviation industry, -for one, has expressed ‘considerable concern” over the possibility that the recommendations may be, followed literally. : “The report largely overlooks the field of general aviation,” says the Utility Airplane Council of the Aircraft Industries Association, It adds that the general aviation fleet numbers about 60,000 aircraft and that 80 per cent or more of these are in activities related to business, agriculture, industry and government. In comment to the Air Co-ordinating Committee, which is responsible for implementing the recommendations, tke AIA Council charges that the commission did not cover all branches, of aviation. This despite the, President's re quest thet -rédognition be given both to the requirements of national defense and to the importance of a progressive and efficient aviation industry. in our national economy.”

Restrictions Feared

CONCERN is expressed by the AIA ‘over

military plans to recapture a number of airports which are important airline scheduled stops and also extensively used by general aviation. This, says the Council, would eliminate entirely or impose ceilings or restrictions on general civil flying. AIA takes issue with the Commission's “implication” that state, county and municipal governments have not assumed their proper share of expense in building new airports and improving others. “At no time since the Federal Airport Act, enacted six years ago, proposed matching federal funds with local funds, has the government come anywhere near appropriating the money authorized in any one year,” AIA says. The association says it does not agree that the “highest priority” should be given to federal aid to major municipal airports. A proper portion should be earmarked for small airport development, the AIA believes.

* Certification Opposed IT OBJECTS to federal certification of airports on grounds that it would not result in any better or safer airports or accomplish anything in the public interest, Special regulations governing traffic control

zones in areas of high traffic density would .

make it difficult, if not impossible, for many desirable general aviation activities to be carried on, the AIA says. The recommendation that bring their runways to “a standard runway length” could result in discouraging a community from building airports at' all, according to the association. ¢ General civil aviation already represents’ a significant investment in fleets of aircraft owned by corporations and aircraft used by businessmen and farmers in their daily activities. These logically can be considered defensesupporting in character, the AIA contends. The President's Commission’s report followed investigation of the problems of noise and safety of residents in the vicinity of airports,

airports should

‘TURN TO GOD'

If all people looked to heaven . . . fided in the Lord . .. we could tie the world we live in , .-. with a strong and peaceful cord . . . if we turned to God in heaven . . . not the devil in his hell . . . we could solve our greatest troubles . ., and the whole world would excel ... all ten commandments to obey ... to avoid great pain and sorrow ., . that we dwell in day by day ... yes, the way to peace is easy . . . turn to God and you will know . . . for the path to peace Is golden . . . where the milk and honey flow . . . but alas it seems we detour . . . to the many ‘evil ways , .. all the World is in a whirlpool , , when it thinks that evil pays . . , turn to God because without Him . . . all is lost in war and sin . , , but with faith in God above us .., there will be no wars to win. ; =By Ben Burroughs.

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to receive the grain at the end of the loan period. Mr. Truman went on in his Iowa speech: “Now the farmers need such bins again, But when the Republican Congress rewrote the charter of the Commodity Credit Corporation this year there were certain lobbyists in Washington representing the speculative grain trade—your old friends. ‘“T'hese - big business lobbyists and speculators persuaded the Congress not to provide the storage bins for the farmers. They tied the hands of the administration. They are preventing us from setting up the storage bins that you will need in order to get the support price for your grain.” ® * A SEQUEL to the storage bin hoax is that throughout 1946-47 and early 1948 the Commodity Credit Corp. had sold thousands of tts round steel bins to farmers. Not that these sales made any difference in the government's commitment to support prices. The “tin cans,” as farmers and grain nandlers cail them, had stood empty for several years because of heavy grain exports to Europe. High grain prices and farmers’ indifference to the loan program made the bins surplus property. Mr. Truman went on piling falsehood upon

* “When the farmers have to sell their wheat oelow thé support price, because they have no place to store it, they can thank the same Republican 80th Congress that gave the speculative grain trade a rakeoff at your expense. “The Republican reactionaries are not satisfied with that. Now they are attacking the whole structure of price supports for farm products and the price support program. is of the greatest importance to the farmer. The purpose of the price supports is to prevent farm prices from falling to ruinously low levels.” So bb AFTER the election, corn prices kept falling until some high moisture grain sold down to $1 a bushel and less at country points. Farmers sealed a heavy volume of corn that fall and winter under government loan, contrary to Mr. Truman's big yarn that the administration's hands were tied. ‘ After ligyidating the “ever-normal granary” bins in 1946-47-48 at a fraction of their cost, the government in 1949-50 spent millions in replacing them, purchasing a total storage capasity of 246 million bushels. By June, 1951, bin purchases had increased to 311 million bushels. Thousands of these bins are again empty. They probably will stay empty. Farmers took put loans on only 54 million bushels of 1951 crop corn, though they may increase that figure

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when the new 1952 crop starts moving.

Showing His Muscle

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NO NECKLINES . . . By Frederick C. Othman

TV Manners and Morals Probe Develops Brand New Ulcers =

WASHINGTON — We can presume that Congressman “Rzekiel C.'Gathings, Who does not approve of the hootchiekooch on television, is taking his case back home in West Memphis, Ark., with his 201,inch screen turned on full brilliance. We also can hope he's enjoying it. And finding it moral. Everybody else connected with Zeke’'s resolution of ihe last congressional session to investigate the morals of TV is sweating. The subcommittee of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee now is hearing witneses from 10 a. m. until five p. m. The witnesses, mostly representif radio and TV interests, are trying to put their best feet forward. For Zeke's’ information, I think maybe I'd better jot down what was said by a typical occupant of the hot seat, this one a well-dressed and dignified blond young man (all the people in this business are well-dressed and dignified) in horn -rimmed eyeglasses,

Name of Ralph Harfly. He doesn’t have ulcers yet, but thev're on the way. Thanks:

to Zeke.

” » ” MR. HARDY used to be a radio announcer, producer, writer and manager in Salt Lake City. He worked his way up in this ulcerous industry there until finally he came to Washington as director of government relations for the Na-

tional Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters. In a carefully written formal statement he said Congress had no idea how easy it was for a householder who didn’t like a

program to turn the dial. Hap-

pens all the time. This gives the radio and TV fellows stomach trouble before their time and causes them to knock themselves out trying to think of stuff the citizens want to see, The latter seldom complain formally; they prefer direct action with the switch on the set,

"Still and all, the broadcasters

do get a great deal of carping nail, but Mr. Hardy said most of it was inspired by pressure groups. He said he personally

has | investigated this and a -

number of the complainants

never had even seen the pro-

grams they eriticized. . _. ”

= 2 WELL, wondered Rep. Oren Harris (D. Ark.), the chair- -

man, what about the survey of Frank Orme, editor of TV magazine, in Los Angeles? It showed the children in the City of the Angels had available to them on television 852 major crimes, including 167 murders, in one week. Mr. Hardy said he'd never heard of Editor Orme, his magazine, or his criminal survey. He added that he'd been on a tour of broadcasting stations for the last month, checking up on business, which could have been better. When he got home. the other evening his four children wanted some entertainment. You'd have thought a man in the business would have snapped on the TV set, but

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not Mr. Hardy. He got out a copy .of Grimm's Fairy Tales and began to read.aloud.

“Practically every story had little kids popped into ovens, or getting their eyes poked out, or being poisoned by big, red apples,” he said. . # » TV HE DOUBTED was nearly as rough on the youngsters’ minds as nursery stories. Still and all he felt that the industry would give its all to please practically everybody. As he put it: “Broadcasting people are well known for their high incidence of ulcers. Of course, they do something about complaints.” That's the way it is, Zeke. Hope you're suffering from no ulcers in West Memphis and

“ that you haven't seen a low

neckline on TV since you first sounded off last spring.

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Hits Back in Political Fight

MR. EDITOR: ,1 should reply to a Tetter which appeared in the forum of The Indianapolis Times Sept. 10, signed by a Chester D. Apple of Pendleton in which he has made the assertion that the Indianapolis Times is not an independent news. paper and I quote from his letter to you: “I should like to ask you why you claim to be an independent newspaper when election after election for the past several years, you support only the Republican Party and find nothing but fault with the Democratic Party.” This is a false statement and anyone who has followed The Times for any length of time knows it. To prove my point, Mr. Apple, think back to the mayoralty election and you will find The

Times selected former Mayor Phillip Bayt in |

preference to our present Mayor Alex Clark. The editorial that I recall reading commended both men but The Times said they were backing Mayor Bayt. Does that sound like a Re publican newspaper to you? In the past few years I have read editorials in The Times in which they gave President Truman much credit on various things that he had done or proposed. On the other hand I also have read where they have disagreed with some of his ideas. These editorials in themselves prove that The Times is an independent newspaper. A newspaper, just like people, selects the one candidate which in their opinion will be the best man for that fob. In continuing his letter, Mr, Apple states, “What's the matter, can’t you get over the fact that Truman was elected in 1948?" He didn’t hoax the farmers at all. They voted

or him, didn’t they?

Being elected doesn’t mean you can’t be hoaxed as in the case of Franklin Roosevelt, If you will recall, he was elected on the promise that our boys would not be sent overseas but they were and we were hoaxed. Truman promised the people repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. However, with a Democratio Congress in his favor he was unable to do that and they were hoaxed also. In the past 20 years the Democrats have been holding office throughout the city, state and national government and I think that’s pretty good for any city that does not have a Democratic newspaper, according to Mr. Apple. —N. & IL. City,

‘We Need a Change’ MR. EDITOR: I have often thought how much happier the New Dealers and Fair Dealers are, who are living in a fool's paradise, than people who dig down deep and wonder when our boys are going to be sent to fight another useless, futile Democrat war. . Take F. M. for instance. He paints quite a rosy picture of everything the Democrats have done, and then proceeds to set up straw men he calls Republicans and tries to knock them down. He claims they are the privileged few who are trying to destroy organized labor, don’t like farmers, and are trying to destroy the masses. I do not claim the Republican party wears any halo and if they had stayed in power as long they might be just as bad, But I ask you in all fairness, did they ever have such a record of fear, war, confusion, communism, waste, graft, high taxes and corruption as the New Deal and Fair Deal has given us in the last 20 years? . eS &.

FM. TELLS us that while taxes are high, 80 is income, and tells us that we operate on credit and that most business is operated that way. Yes, we are operating our government on credit and have been doing it for 20 years and the only time the budget was balanced was the two years the Republicans controlled Congress. My own experience has been that when any business operates in the red 18 years out of 20, it is already in bankruptcy and the owners are fools if they don't dispose of it or get a new manager. I don’t think this\ government can operate fn the red forever and if we are to survive we

have to haye a change, balance the budget, .

stop wasting our money, and most important of all, quit sending our sons all over the world to be slaughtered in fighting useless, futile Democrat wars,

—C.D.C., Terre Haute,

fon throughout the country being overwhelmingly in favor of Ike doesn’t mean much to anyone who remembers the campaigh of 1948. The editors were certainly overwhelmingly in favor of Dewey that year. And the fact that editorial opinion has been overwhelmingly in favor of the Republican candidates from Willkie to Ike shows how little influence editors have on the outcome of presidential elections. There is a reason for this: Editorial opinion is 90 per cent biased. Editors, like other people, have an ax to grind and the people know it. Pulliam probably expects to become Secretary of the Interior or something if Ike's elected. And heaven only knows what the editor of The Times expects. Like Pulliam, he came out for Ike even before he was chosen at Chicago. There's only one reason for Ike as the editors, who are mostly Republican, see it. He can win. What qualifications he has for the presidency don’t matter. The editors are whooping Tke up although the General hasn't hit on a single issue except that of corruption for which Republican administrations have been noted. The corruption of the Truman administration is peanuts compared with that of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. In my opinion Ike has got to come clean on the issues if the Republicans win. Besides, corruption doesn't apply to Adlai Stevenson, except that Illinois got rid of it when Stevenson kicked the Republican gang out of government in the state of Illinois. Editorial opinion has not been able to influence the government in Washington for the last 20 years and that’s why, perhaps, the editors would like to see a ‘“‘change,” particularly Republican editors. ~Yar L. Notsam, Shirley.

What About a Change? MR. EDITOR:

I just want you and anyone else who reads this column to know that I agree 100 per cent with what Mr. Chester D. "Apple wrote- in the Sept. 10th paper. I have been thinking the same thing for a long time. You are supposed to. be an independent paper, taking no sides, but you sure have turned Republican. But that is easy to explain. All big business and papers are for the Republicans, for big business and not the working man. How many laws were ever passed under the Republicans to benefit the working man? How many increases in wages have we ever got under the Republeans? Sure, we got taxes and we got money to pay them with. I had taxes back in 1930, but nothing to pay them with. I have bought a home, paid for it and got.enough to live on for quite a while, and I will soon go on my pension and live the rest of my life out without worry unless the Republicans get in and take it all away from me’ again. (her They talk about a change, but what change? Unless it's to change all labor laws and put -us back on a dollar a day and a suit of overalls which is their platform. Anyone that has not benefited ‘themselves the last 20 years, it's no ene's fault but their own. And the Republicans will not stop any wars any more than the Democrats. They promise everything and do nothing for the common man. :

” | —S. C. M,, City.

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